Nurse strikes Wales: Pay dispute 'beginning of end for NHS'

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Nurse strikes Wales: Pay dispute 'beginning of end for NHS'
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One union member says they will strike for 'as long as it takes' to ensure staff and patient safety.

All health boards in Wales, except for Aneurin Bevan, are affected by striking staff.Members of the Royal College of Nursing on the picket line outside University Hospital Wales in Cardiff

"We cannot deliver the standard of care we want to deliver. Without new staff coming into the service it could be the beginning of the end of the NHS and none of us want that.""We want people around the table, to negotiate the pay rise that's agreeable to everybody and unfortunately there's no dialogue at the moment," she said.

She continued: "I know exactly what patients are feeling like, because I am one, and I know what relatives of patients will be feeling, because I am one.

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